Virginia Gun Group Sues Katie Couric for $12 Million Over Deceptive Editing - Granite Grok

Virginia Gun Group Sues Katie Couric for $12 Million Over Deceptive Editing

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“Introducing the old reliable Katie Couric shaped douchebag.

Katie Couric and her Director purposefully edited a film to advance the progressive view of guns and gun owners and now it could cost them. The Virgina Citizens Defense League is suing for damages.

“the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), along with two of its members, today filed a $12 million defamation lawsuit against Katie Couric, director Stephanie Soechtig, Atlas Films, and Studio 3 Partners LLC d/b/a Epix for false and defamatory footage featured in the 2016 documentary film Under the Gun.”

Scott Morales shared the story here first, with video of James O’Keefe comparing actual audio of the interview to the final version of the film. EPIX, which is named in the suit, pulled that film after the controversy refused to go away.  Now they get to go to court. I hope the girlish sniggering in post-production about how those crazy gals ‘were gonna show them’ was worth $12 Million plus.

I hope the Couric/Soechtig girlish sniggering in post-production was worth $12 million plus.

(Bob) Owens (BearingArms.com) included excerpts from an announcement about the litigation, which disclosed that “in the filing, the VCDL, Daniel L. Hawes, Esq., and Patricia Webb allege that the filmmakers knowingly and maliciously manufactured the fictional exchange by splicing in footage that the filmmakers took surreptitiously after telling the interviewees to be silent for ten seconds so that recording equipment could be calibrated.” The document also disclosed that “the lawsuit, filed in federal court (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia– Richmond Division), seeks $12 million in compensatory damages, plus punitive damages. “

(Emphasis in NewsBusters original.)

This is the first time I have heard that the filmmakers asked them for 10 seconds of silence. If true, and the calibration excuse doesn’t hold up, which it shouldn’t, this suggests premeditation prior to editing. If it goes all wrong for Couric and company $12 million could look like a compromise.

All because reality would not conform to their preprogrammed narrative.

Douchebags.

 

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